{"id":7020,"date":"2021-06-17T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7020"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:52:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:52:25","slug":"digital-ads-industry-accused-of-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/digital-ads-industry-accused-of-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Ads Industry Accused Of Data Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Irish Council for Civil Liberties recently sued a branch of Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Tech Lab, which specializes in developing standards for the digital advertising industry, for what it called &#8220;the world&#8217;s largest data breach.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case brought forward by Johnny Ryan focuses on the data that is shared between ad brokers and other companies while ad space is offered as a website load.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The process is also knows as the real-time bidding process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While many Internet services have been kept free to use by digital ads, there is an ongoing debate about the amount of data collected about individuals to target digital ads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Ryan, most people who use online services are unaware of how much data is shared about them and with whom that data is shared.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-57232253\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in the BBC.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IAB, which specializes in developing standards for the digital ad industry is being sued for a huge data breach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7048,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020\/revisions\/7048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}